Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org to Television@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 days agoTV shows are sometimes criticized for lack of realism due to most of the cast being too good looking. What is a show that has mostly normal looking people?message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down12
arrow-up125arrow-down1message-squareTV shows are sometimes criticized for lack of realism due to most of the cast being too good looking. What is a show that has mostly normal looking people?Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org to Television@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoLeona Helmsley has entered the chat. The real one. https://www.advocate.com/news/2007/08/21/hotelier-leona-helmsley-dubbed-queen-mean-dies-87 The woman they got to play her. https://www.wallofcelebrities.com/celebrity/suzanne-pleshette/pictures/suzanne-pleshette_326300.html
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoSuzanne Pleshette was always so gorgeous.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoShe could play a super model or the mom next door. And she was really funny.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 hours agoI suspect the ugliness was contributory to her nastiness, so it really was wrong to cast a beauty in the role What happened to making it clear who was good and who was bad by good being pretty/handsome and bad being ugly?
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours agohttps://bookshop.org/p/books/red-as-blood-tales-of-the-sisters-grimmer-tanith-lee/14214058?ean=9781479447473&next=t This book takes all the Disney princesses and makes them the baddies. Snow White is a vampire and Cinderella is a witch who drives the poor Prince insane.
Leona Helmsley has entered the chat.
The real one.
https://www.advocate.com/news/2007/08/21/hotelier-leona-helmsley-dubbed-queen-mean-dies-87
The woman they got to play her.
https://www.wallofcelebrities.com/celebrity/suzanne-pleshette/pictures/suzanne-pleshette_326300.html
Suzanne Pleshette was always so gorgeous.
She could play a super model or the mom next door. And she was really funny.
I suspect the ugliness was contributory to her nastiness, so it really was wrong to cast a beauty in the role
What happened to making it clear who was good and who was bad by good being pretty/handsome and bad being ugly?
https://bookshop.org/p/books/red-as-blood-tales-of-the-sisters-grimmer-tanith-lee/14214058?ean=9781479447473&next=t
This book takes all the Disney princesses and makes them the baddies. Snow White is a vampire and Cinderella is a witch who drives the poor Prince insane.